“Karma means action, work or deed; it also refers to the principle of causality where intent and actions of
an individual influence the future of that individual.Good intent and good deed contribute to good
karma and future happiness, while bad intent and bad deed contribute to bad
karma and future suffering.Karma is
closely associated with the idea of rebirth in some schools of Asian
religions.In these schools, karma in
the present affects one's future in the current life, as well as the nature and
quality of future lives - or, one's saṃsāra. With
origins in ancient India, it is a key concept in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism,
Sikhism, Taoism, Shintoism, ChingHai and others.” (emphasis
mine)

Mirram-Webster defines it this
way:

the force created by a person's actions that is believed in Hinduism and
Buddhism to determine what that person's next life will be like: the force created by a person's actions
that some people believe causes good or bad things to happen to that person

The teachings of Positive Thinking/Positive Confession in
the Word of Faith movement have been supported and fostered by unbiblical
teachings such as the phrase “judge not lest you be judged”.This saying of Jesus, taken from Matt. 7:1, is yanked out of context and applied to everything in
life in order to get people to not say anything negative. And yet a few verses
later in the same message Jesus warns people to “watch out for false prophets”.

Matt. 7:15“Watch
out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly
they are ferocious wolves.

Matt. 7:1, in context, is speaking of one specific type
of judging, namely hypocritical judging; judging someone else for something of
which you are guilty.Yet this teaching
has made the rounds of many denominations and many Christians are quick to bring
this idea up if you have the audacity to prove their Christian “idol(s)” are
teaching heresy.They are quick to say:
“Judge not; you are so negative; you are just a heresy hunter”.I refer you to my teaching on how we ARE to
judge in my article “How
To Discern, Test and Judge Rightly”.The
fact is that we ARE called to judge, particularly those inside the churches.

1 Corinthians 5:12-13 What business is it of mine to judge those outside
the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those
outside. "Expel the wicked man from among you."

But to an adherent of the new Christian “karma” you are
not allowed to say negative things about another person.The reason is twofold: (1) rebuking someone
does not fit the postmodern relativist paradigm of positive thinking and not
judging and (2) if you do rebuke people you will have negative things happen to
you.To prove my point that these
teachers are teaching karma, I offer a smattering of quotes from some of these
teachers who have mixed the New Age with Christianity.

He wants to fill your life with “new wine,” but are you willing to get
rid of your old wineskins? Will you start thinking bigger? Will you enlarge your vision and get rid of those old negative
mind-sets that hold you back? (Joel Osteen, LeSea
broadcasting Joyce Meyer, July 19, 2007)

“Why did God take away the voice of Zacharias? (Luke 1:11-20)
Because God knew his [Zacharias]
negative words would cancel out His [God] plan.” (Joel Osteen, “Speaking
Faith Filled Words,” Tape # 223. Daystar Television, May 2, 2004) I need to
show how silly this all is. Zacharias was judged by the angel because of his
disbelief in the message - not because of what he would say later. Can anything
man says cancel what God ordains? (Preaching A
False Positive With A Smile by Mike Oppenheimer)

“If you develop an image of
victory, success, health, abundance, joy, peace, and happiness, nothing on
earth will be able to hold those things from you” (Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now,
p. 5).

“The first step to living at your full potential is to enlarge your vision. To live
your best life now, you must start looking at life through eyes of faith,
seeing yourself rising to new levels. See your business taking off.
See your marriage restored. See your family prospering. See your
dreams coming to pass. You must
conceive it and believe it is possible if you ever hope to experience it”
(Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now,
p. 4, emphasis his).

“You will produce what you’re
continually seeing in your mind…
If you develop an image of victory, success, health, abundance, joy, peace, and
happiness, nothing on earth will be able to hold those things from you… Start
anticipating promotions and supernatural increase. You must conceive it in your heart and mind before you can receive it…
You must make room for increase in your
own thinking, and then God will bring those things to pass” (Joel
Osteen, Your Best Life Now,
pp. 5-6).

“Whatever your mountain is, you
must do more than think about it, more than pray about it; you must speak to
that obstacle… Start calling yourself healed, happy, whole, blessed, and
prosperous. Stop talking to God about how big your mountains are, and
start talking to your mountains about how big your God is” (Joel Osteen, Your
Best Life Now, p. 124).

“The moment you speak something
out, you give birth to it.
This is a spiritual principle, and it works whether what you are saying is good
or bad, positive or negative” (Joel Osteen, Your
Best Life Now, p. 129).

Kenneth Copeland states the faith formula this way: “All it takes
is (Taken from The Secret DVD) seeing or visualizing whatever you need,
whether physical or financial; (Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity
in Crisis (Eugene,
Oregon: Harvest House Publishers, 1993), p. 74, 75.) and
staking your claim on Scripture; and
speaking it into existence.”(Ibid., p. 80.) (Gary
Gilley, Joel Osteen and the Prosperity Gospel, 10/12)

Paul Yonggi Cho, pastor of the world’s
largest church in South Korea , borrowing from the
occult, has developed what he calls the “Law of Incubation.” Here is how
it works: “First make a clear-cut
goal, then draw a mental picture, vivid and graphic, to visualize
success. Then incubate it into reality, and finally speak it into
existence through the creative power of the spoken word.” (Ibid., pp. 83,
84) (Gary Gilley, Joel Osteen and the Prosperity Gospel, 10/12)

(Charles) Capps has gone so far as to teach that Jesus was the product
of God's positive confession: "This
is the key to understanding the virgin birth. God's Word is full of faith and
spirit power. God spoke it. God
transmitted that image to Mary. She received the image inside of her....The
embryo that was in Mary's womb was nothing more than the Word of God....She
conceived the Word of God." (Charles Capps, Dynamics of Faith and
Confession (Tulsa, OK: Harrison House, 1987), 86-87; cf. Charles Capps,
Authority in Three Worlds (Tulsa, OK: Harrison House, 1982), 76-85)

“Job tapped into the negative
side of the faith force by a negative confession …” [Benny Hinn, Adapted and/or excerpted by
permission from the 2/94 The Berean Call (P.O. Box
7019, Bend, OR 97708, and from a 1992 Media Spotlight Special Report (P.O. Box
290, Redmond, WA 98073).]

Hogwash!Job made
one of the most positive confessions, not to improve himself, but of his faith
in God.

Job 1:21 (Job) said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord
has taken away; may the name of the Lord be
praised.”

(Essex) Kenyon's teaching about "the power of words" and his warnings never to make a "negative
confession" [Kenyon and Gosset, Confession,
pp. 129-36, 152-55, 182-85, etc.] deeply influenced Hagin
and many others who are recognized today as leaders of the word of
faith/positive confession movement. Kenyon
also taught that man is a little god "in God's class" and
therefore can use the same faith-force that God does. [E.W. Kenyon, What
Happened from the Cross to the Throne? (Kenyon, 1945, 5th
ed.)pp. 62, 173-76.]We allegedly create our own reality with the words of our mouth:
"What I confess, I possess." [E.W. Kenyon, The Hidden Man: An
Unveiling of the Subconscious Mind (Kenyon, 1970), p. 98.] (http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/word-faith2.html)

I could cite many more quotes, thousands from those
listed above and others.But the fact is
that New Age and Eastern Mysticism has been ladled into many Christians and
churches by these false teachers.These
unbiblical ideas trace their origin back to the original lie of Satan in the
Garden … that men can be “like God”.Please read my article called “They Will
Believe the Lie” to see just how far the devil has penetrated the churches
and individuals from the beginning.The
idea that we can create our own reality and things we want “ex nihilo” as only
God can do shows that those who believe and teach the ideas of “Positive
Thinking/Positive Confession” have indeed believed the BIG lie.